The sculpture of the day that I propose to you today is the tender Girl with turtledoves sculpted by the artist Luigi Pampaloni around 1833.
Pampaloni gave body and soul to a block of marble to create a kneeling girl with her hair in two braids tied behind her neck and a bow decorating her head. She has a sweet face and looks lovingly at the dove that has flown out of the nest.
He takes it in his hands and seems to be about to put it back together with his remaining siblings in the nest that he holds with his left hand. The ground dove can also be the mother of the chicks.
The sculpture is impregnated with an incredible naturalness and a relaxed and intimate atmosphere hovers around you. Pampaloni was known precisely for his graceful, delicate and faithful to reality works.
The sculptor Luigi Pampaloni was born in Florence on October 7, 1791. and he presented the plaster model of the work for the first time at the Florence Academy in 1830. Grand Duke Leopold II liked it so much that he immediately wanted to commission the artist to make a Carrara marble version as a gift to the Prince of Metternich.
The work was highly appreciated and was written in the Gazzetta di Firenze. “The famous author of the statues of Arnolfo and Brunellesco, Mr. Professor Luigi Pampaloni, who knows how to unite all the grace of Art with the sublime, began the effigy of a girl with a nest of turtle doves in the act of caressing her mother ».
The sculpture completed in 1833 was first exhibited in the Sala della Stufa of Palazzo Pitti, and the following year it was shipped to Vienna. The Chancellor’s third wife, countess melaniein his private journal, on March 6, 1834, he narrates the arrival of the work in Vienna together with two large hard stone tables.
The maiden of the turtledoves was so lucky that the artist was commissioned to make other versions of her and today three are known: one is in Turin in the Palazzo Falletti di Barolo, one at Paris at the Musée Jacquemart-André (the one you see in the photos) and the last one in Monaco.
All trace of that first version of the Prince of Metternich has been lost.
For the moment, your Michelangelo Buonarroti greets you, giving you an appointment for the next publications and on social networks.
The sculpture of the day that I propose to you today is the tender Maiden with turtledoves sculpted by the artist Luigi Pampaloni around 1833.
Pampaloni gave body and soul to a block of marble to create a kneeling girl with her hair in two braids tied behind her neck and a bow decorating her head. She has a sweet face and looks fondly at where she has flown from the nest.
He takes it in his hands and seems to be about to put it back together with his remaining siblings in the nest that he holds with his left hand.
The sculpture is imbued with an incredible naturalness and a relaxed and intimate atmosphere hovers around it. Pampaloni was known precisely for his graceful, delicate and faithful to reality works.
The sculptor Luigi Pampaloni was born in Florence on October 7, 1791 and first presented the plaster model of the work at the Florence Academy. Grand Duke Leopold II liked it so much that he immediately wanted to commission the artist to make a Carrara marble version as a gift to the Prince of Metternich.
The work was highly appreciated and the Gazzetta di Firenze wrote “The famous author of the Statues of Arnolfo and Brunellesco sig. Professor Luigi Pampaloni, who knows how to combine all the grace of Art with the sublime, began the effigy of a girl with a nest of turtle doves in the act of caressing her mother ».
The sculpture completed in 1833 was first exhibited in the Sala della Stufa of the Palazzo Pitti, and the following year it was shipped to Vienna. The chancellor’s third wife, Countess Melanie, in her private diary on March 6, 1834, narrated the arrival of the work in Vienna together with two large tables made of semi-precious stones.
The Maiden with Turtle Doves was so lucky that other versions were commissioned from the artist and three are known today: one is in Turin at the Palazzo Falletti di Barolo, another in Paris at the Musée Jacquemart-André (the one seen in the photo ) and the last one in Monaco.
All trace of that first version of the Prince of Metternich has been lost.
For the moment, your Michelangelo Buonarroti greets you, giving you an appointment for the next publications and on social networks.
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